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With your diet during pregnancy, you're
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programming your baby's DNA. And this is
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going to have an impact on your baby's
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development and on their future risk of
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disease. And there's a lot of pregnant
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moms who are eating a diet that's not
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giving them the nutrients their baby
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needs. This is not the mom's fault. This
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is the fault of our food system. This is
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the fault of society. And nobody's
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telling moms about this. And I wanted to
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create this guide to help parents
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navigate that food system and see easy
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things they can do to help their baby's
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development. And I know this because as
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a biochemist when I became pregnant I
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just went deep deep deep into the
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research and there are some main things
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that I learned. For example, 90% of moms
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are not getting enough choline during
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pregnancy. And choline is super
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important. It forms your baby's brain in
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the womb. So this is the amount of eggs
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that I ate per week during the 9 months
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of pregnancy because this is the
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simplest way to give enough choline to
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our baby. And then your baby needs no
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fructose during pregnancy. So sugar from
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dessert, from chocolate, from muffins,
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from cupcakes. Your baby needs none of
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this because if you have very high
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glucose levels during pregnancy,
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scientists have found that your baby's
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DNA will have epigenetic switches that
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are programming them towards having a
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higher vulnerability to develop
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diabetes, obesity, and psychiatric
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disorders. Next, this is basically the
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amount of protein that I needed to eat
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every single day in the third trimester
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of pregnancy.
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>> Yeah. because the studies show low
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protein diets lead to smaller babies and
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potentially this epigenetic programming
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of staying smaller throughout life. And
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it's findings like that that led me to
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create a plan and simple hacks for
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pregnant moms and we can talk about
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them.
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>> And then what does the research say
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about breastfeeding, exercise, caffeine,
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and also do you recommend that mothers
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take certain supplements?
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>> So this is what people need to know.